Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Designing jobs right (HBR)
• Walmart's plastic bag ban leaves some customers saddled with mounds of reusable bags (CBC)
• Retailers and the terrible, horrible, not bad, pretty good holidays (WSJ)
• Where corporate governance still falls short (Globe and Mail)
• Mondelez sells gum business to Perfetti in $1.35B deal (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Cheese actually isn't bad for you (Wired)
• Where are the directors in a world in crisis (Globe and Mail)
• The + that's taking over streaming platforms (NYT)
• Supermarkets are pressured to raise hazard pay (WSJ)
• From the archives (2008): Ontario's store wars march westwards (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• It's time to replace the public corporation (HBR)
• Why is there financing for everything now (The Atlantic)
• High-end city dining turns to suburban delivery during the pandemic (WSJ)
• Aphria, Tilray combine to form the biggest cannabis company (Bloomberg)
• Former Away employees describe toxic work environment at the luggage startup (The Verge)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How the world got hooked on palm oil (The Guardian)
• How girl scout cookies captured the heart of America (Vox)
• In the Canadian natural foods business, experts say small is big (CBC)
• Bud's Super Bowl ad threatens to derail beer alliance (WSJ)
• Amazon appoints former Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi to board (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Dr Ashante Reese on the loss of grocery stores and the power of choice (Epicurious)
• Is Primark's owner too big - and diverse, to fail (The Guardian)
• Walmart commits to 'zero food waste' in Canadian stores by 2025 (Globe and Mail)
• Warren Buffet heads for board exit at pivotal moment for Kraft Heinz (FT)
• Amazon's other Jeff steps into the spotlight (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Grocery store tomatoes taste like cardboard - Florida researchers are fixing that (LA Times)
• How retailers should think about online versus in-store pricing (HBR)
• Target tightens grip over chemicals in bid to make goods safer (Bloomberg)
• Tesco's cunning succession plan (Gadfly)
• Vendors skeptical as Walmart changes sourcing roles (Supermarket News)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The world's biggest public companies (Forbes)
• Why ex-Canadian Tire CEO Michael Medline is the man to fix Sobeys (Canadian Business)
• Metro considers switching from Air Miles over consumer backlash (Globe and Mail)
• Target plans to introduce its own smartphone payment service in stores later this year (Recode)
• Much of the cuisine we now know, and think of as ours, came to us by war (Smithsonian Mag)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Sarah Davis named Loblaw president amid Galen Weston executive shift (Financial Post)
• Nestle should leave baby food maker Mead Johnson in the corner (Gadfly)
• How Kraft Heinz plans to build a new global food giant (Fortune)
• 2016 was a record year for data breaches (Bloomberg)
• Do online reviews matter to businesses (K@W)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• An MIT professor designed the supermarket of the future (Business Insider)
• The firm of the future (Bain)
• Second-class shareholders becoming the new normal (Financial Post)
• General Mills turns to kale chips to boost growth (Bloomberg)
• Do digital brands need physical stores (Business of Fashion)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Sobey's parent Empire Co. names Michael Medline as new CEO (Empire)
• Americans are drinking less milk, but can't get enough cheese (Bloomberg)
• Three brands ahead of the mobile curve (L2)
• Amazon to add 100,000 jobs as bricks-and-mortar retail crumbles (NYT)
• In retailing, assortment is job one (HBR)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Why is healthy food so expensive? Maybe because we expect it to be (WaPo)
• Inside Sears' death spiral (Business Insider)
• All things pass: The next CEO of Sam's Club (Kantar Retail)
• Rethinking pharma productivity (MQ)
• Do corporate boards pick the best CEO (Stanford)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Canadian scientists are trying to make your tomatoes tasty again (Globe and Mail)
• J.C. Penney strikes sale-and-leaseback deal for Texas headquarters (WSJ)
• Amazon, Forever 21 vying for bankrupt American Apparel (Reuters)
• Corporations need a new reason to be (Bloomberg View)
• Low wage workers are getting a raise, economists are getting an experiment (538)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Burger King, Tim Hortons aim to curb antibiotics in chicken supply (Financial Post)
• The world's biggest food company makes the case for its avant-garde human diet (Quartz)
• Why we're seeing so many corporate scandals (HBR)
• Setting value, not price (MQ)
• The mystery of the rude waiter (Slate)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Nestle scientists find way to cut sugar by 40% (Bloomberg)
• The downside to full board independence (MIT SMR)
• Wells Fargo formally separates chairman, CEO roles (WSJ)
• Big food faces annihilation if it doesn't move with millennials on health (The Guardian)
• CPG: The post-replenishment challenge (Forbes)
• The grocery chain that became Africa's biggest retailer by betting on its middle class (Quartz)